Octa
Octa reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 2,143, and has been recorded 160 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1941. About 3 Octas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 84.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Octa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 160
- Estimated living today
- 3
- Median age today
- 84
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 2,143rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1885
How old the living Octas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 160 babies given the name since 1885, about 3 are alive — 2 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1941 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Octa peaked:
Related names
Octa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.